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You Are Invited! Please join Advocates for the West for our Annual Holiday Party. We have much to celebrate this year, most especially you — our dedicated supporters. So come raise a glass and toast to another year of Winning for the West! Wednesday, December 5th 5:30 to 8:30pm Leku Ona on the Boise Basque Block — 117…

Advocates for the West is pleased to announce that three western forests are re-thinking their continued reliance on outdated winter travel decisions. In response to our lawsuit, three Intermountain national forests withdrew winter motorized travel maps showing where snowmobiles and other “over-snow” motorized vehicles are allowed, while they consider impacts to imperiled wildlife. The Boise and Payette National Forests…

Senior Attorney Todd Tucci – Washington, DC Office Yesterday, President Trump made his first visit to Utah to announce he is withdrawing protections for over 1.5 million acres of national monuments – threatening tens of thousands of cultural, historic, paleontological and ecological artifacts and objects. President Trump shrank Bears Ears National Monument by nearly 90%, and…

Advocates for the West warned federal water managers of our intent to sue to protect threatened Upper Willamette River Chinook and steelhead from harm caused by numerous dams throughout the Upper Willamette River basin in Oregon. On Thursday, our Portland office sent a notice of intent to sue to the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) on behalf…

A remembrance from Executive Director Laird Lucas I shed tears on Friday morning when I heard that Governor Cecil Andrus died. He passed the day before – the same day a big summer storm whipped through Boise with rain and winds. It’s like Mother Earth herself was paying tribute to this great man. I was fortunate to get to…